Can you turn off Pentium M speedstep or what...
 

Hey all,

I have a brand new 1 week old Dell Latitude D600.

It is dual booting XP Pro and Redhat Linux 9.

I can truly tell when it's on batteries that it slows way down. I don't like that. I'd rather turn off how the Pentium M shuts down all the stuff it wants to save power.

I had a Celeron 1.8GHz Toshiba that seemed much faster

When this laptop is on power (not batteries) it is FAST. Very Fast. I want it to be like that all the time. I don't care if my battery life goes to crap. I only use it for about an hour at a time anyway

Any suggestions? In the BIOS it says that if you turn speedstep off that it will run at 600MHz all the time. Is this correct? It's weird....

I love the laptop..........but I want the power all the time

Please help if you can.

Thanks!

You know...it's funny. It seems that Microsoft and Intel just keep designing stuff that gets in your way and makes you search for ways to turn stuff off or disable it.

It looks like I'll have to simply Buy AMD, buy my own parts.....build it....and run Linux forever :)

Give this a try..I found it right off of the Dell support page. You just have to download the files.

http://support.dell.com/filelib/form...leaseid=r61649

As far as microshaft and intel designing products that just get in your way, that's only one of many reasons why I use mostly Macintosh systems. I've got a two-year-old Powerbook on which I've disabled the power management scheme right from the control panel.:D

Thanks Dhimani. I'm already on A06 BIOS which was released in August (8-21-03).

I appreciate you lookin' for me though ;)

Sorry I couldn't be more help. I searched for about an hour and a half last night and the Dell page was the only one that I found that would have been remotely helpful. Have you called Dell tech support at (800)624-9896? They're available 24/7, and I'd suggest that route next if you can't find anything else on the web. :)